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Tech Bros Inventing Things That Already Exist

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It seems like every day the tech industry comes out with a "brilliant new idea” that turns out to be merely a reinvention of a mundane product that already existed. Tech bros keep reinventing the bus, but they have also taken to reinventing the tea pot, the toothbrush, the lunchbreak and the public park. In today's video we look at the tech products that either already existed or should never have existed.

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111 thoughts on “Tech Bros Inventing Things That Already Exist”

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    4. Silly non-Silicon Valkey person. Everyone knows that it’s already too late when you realize you’re thirsty.

      That’s why we need the app.

  3. Who needs real innovation when you can get an unpaid intern to photoshop a Star Trek looking version of something that already exists to impress investors.

    1. Investors don’t need to understand. They are just needed to be convinced The more Buzzwords, the better. And as soon as the money is transferred, “Rien Ne va plus”.

  4. Samsung now sell dryers that use AI that stops the machine when the clothes are dry. Sounds to me like a moisture sensor that many dryers have had for decades.

    3. Those energy saving sensors are marvelous if you prefer your dried clothes to be noticeably damp.

    4. Yeah, it has become the hot new marketing buzzword. They’re slapping it on anything with an IC.

  5. “possibly the most disappointing transit innovation in history”

    i mean, i remember when people said “they’re going to rethink cities around the segway” in public with a straight face

    1. Replace Segway with electric scooters, bikes and one wheels and it isn’t far off. Though I’m not sure they are actually positive, particularly the scooters.

    2. For all it’s faults, at least the Segway was a pretty cool invention and had potentially some usability case. It actually was a new product. Driving taxis through a tunnel is not impressive in the slightest. For the throughout they get of people they could’ve just ditched the taxis and had people walk. I mean seriously they have traffic jams in this closed loop system. If you absolutely can’t have people walking, rent a bus to run on surface streets and ditch the tunnel all together.

    3. @@notsam498 you don’t see ramps for scooters to access scooter lanes, rather you see a jerk using a disabled person’s ramp to buzz trhough the sidewalk while shouting “move over! move over!”

    5. Segways are another good example of what the whole video is demonstrating: tech in search of a use.

      If you ask “Why don’t more people use bicycles?” the top answers are “Too far, no protection from weather, limited baggage, and you have to park it somewhere.” Segway solved none of those. It was a work around for those with physical limitations, but came with the baggage of being more expensive and needing to charge.

      They did however rethink what suburban middle-class 6-year-olds want as a toy. Hoverboards still sell quite well.

  6. Ubers entire business model is pretend to not be taxis while ignoring taxi regulations. I’m still waiting for reality to catch up with them.

    1. They started as ride sharing app and it was cheaper than a taxi. At some point (maybe their idea all along), they went big and increased price and corporatized everything so now they have 3rd party contractors instead of just being a facilitator.

    2. Reality won’t catch up with them. Their goals were always legislative, and they keep winning in that regard. Funny, that.

    3. @@morganseppy5180them being cheaper was implied when I said they pretended to not be taxis to ignore relevant regulation (and licensing)

    4. @@Crembawright. I think they help fudge employment numbers. My entire block used to have Uber stickers it was kinda goofy.

      But even with all this help they’re still not profitable. Which may very well be yet even more shenanigans on their part but who knows how long the house cards will stand.

    5. @@vylbird8014 My local council, in England, refused Über a taxi licence and has been prosecuting lots of Über drivers for driving without a driving licence and insurance. There are several cases in the local Magistrates Court every week.

  7. Nearly five thousand years ago Emperor Shen Nung sipped that first cup of tea and thought, “No, we don’t have the technology for this yet.” And tea was never heard of again.

    2. I once saw a video with a spiritual type lady explaining how to make the tea she was brewing, and instructed you could count about 7 deep breaths to know when you should stop steeping the tea. She soon died of black lung. Didn’t know she was playing with fire.

  8. Patrick, you missed the best one. Uber attempted to secure a patent for ‘surge pricing’, otherwise known as supply and demand, a concept as old as trading itself

    2. is it bad that I wish they’d succeeded? XD surge pricing needs to die and I’d accept exclusivity taking it there if we can’t stop other companies from implementing it any other way. (The pushback has worked so far, but I don’t think it will work forever)

    5. ​@bulletsandbracelets4140 sadly I think companies gain so much from surge prices. That companies will either pay the fee, or see the court case as a fee of business

  9. My new invention is the iPen. It’s a stylus that allows you to write on paper instead of a tablet. The writing remains on the paper without the need of any additional power. This will revolutionize the way we take notes. The ‘i’ stands for ink.

    5. dude. the joke is that it’s literally just a pen for writing on paper ​@@theesecretchannel

  10. Reminds me of The Onion headline: “Scientists Genetically Engineer a Tomato to be More Expensive.”

  11. Years ago, solar clothes dryers were sold. For $20, the purchaser received a short length of clothesline and a handful of clothes pins.

    4. @@andrewp1973 Only if we can call it ‘Blow me Sunshine’ and the official advertising slogan is “I can’t believe it’s not patent!”.

  12. “They laughed at Columbus, […] they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” – Carl Sagan

    2. @@stoneneils He says it in the “Cosmos” TV show and wrote it in “Broca’s Brain.” He was referring to this kind of stuff too. The sentence before that is “The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.” Even in the 70s there were hucksters claiming that the mockery and debunking only showed how scared The Establishment were of their revolutionary idea.

    5. @@Magic_beans_ Couldn’t tell he was being sarcastic? Everyone over the age of 15 has heard that Sagan quote at least a dozen times, it’s become pretty cliche at this point. Unless they come from a maga orientated part of the country, they usually don’t read beyond social media and have the memory of a drunk goldfish.

  13. Back in 2019 some tech bros wrote an Atlantic article saying we need a discipline in schools called “progress studies” where you look to the past to find answers for the future. This was ignoring the fact that the discipline of history has already existed for thousands of years.

    2. Imagine if those numskulls had paid attention in school rather than pathologically believing they were better

  14. “Jesus would probably do the exact same thing if he was running a large venture capital fund” is an unbelievable sentence.

    1. Dude really missed on the opportunity to be in Grind Mindset when he flipped those tables at the Temple.😏

    2. My favorite all time is, “Who would Jesus bomb”? No one thinks about what Jesus would do in the real world. Probably for good reason.

    4. I know Jesus, he lives behind the Wa Wa on 39th and Main. Real shifty character. Kids gotta be careful around Jesus. He’s registered but that never stopped him before.

  15. This video is an excellent example of why I hate the ‘Internet of Things’ because most things we use in day-to-day life are used perfectly well and happily without wifi connection or app integration. Adding apps to devices that have never needed apps will almost always just result in e-waste.

    2. What most people don’t understand is that “Internet of Things” is just an abbreviation of “Internet of Things that shouldn’t have Internet”

    3. Just don’t ignore the occasions where they are genuinely important. Smart home gadgets can have useful applications for people with physical disabilities or the elderly. It’s a lot easier to ask Siri to turn on the room light and open the blinds if moving around the room requires a wheelchair, for example.

    4. I never needed an app to simply buy groceries in Lidl. But now they force me to have it, by introducing discounts and vouchers available only on that app. It’s not obnoxiously intrusive, all I need to do is to whip out the phone and scan it near cash register. But I’m not comfortable with this. Without this app I will pay at least 10% more for basic groceries. With it my personal information is being farmed and thrown around everywhere, to any advertisers they have contracts with. It could be like 800 third parties. Lidl is a massive corporation. No wonder I’m getting a ton of spam calls from call-centres and spam e-mail.

      It’s like I NEED burner e-mails and burner phone numbers now, even though I’m not a criminal. I need them registered with made-up, fake information and just dump these fucking IoT applications in there, where I don’t care about the spam and data mining.

  16. Reminds me of that one tweet that was like “I’ve been thinking about IRL podcasts- bring some friends together, no recording, and have a freeform discussion. Has anyone tried this?”

  17. I recently heard the idea of roads built specifically for self-driving cars. I don’t know what _train_ of thought led them down that _track_ but I hope it doesn’t go off the _rails_ .

    1. I have an idea. What if we dig long tunnels underground and put some kind of rail inside them and then put a special on those rails so it has to go where we want it to go without any need for AI. We link a bunch of them together, and every once in a while, there’s a break in the tunnel where people can get in or out of these cars with staircases leading to above-ground?

    2. @@Nexalian_Gamer Nah, the moment you said it’s not using AI you lost me. These underground pods should definitely be AI-trained to stop at the right place where people most often want to get out, while tracking the movement of its users via an app so it can open and close the doors as needed, without anyone having to press a button.

    3. @@Nexalian_Gamer Yeah but where do we put the touchscreens and the LED lights, and the mobile app connectivity features?

    4. There was an actual attempt to build solar panel highways. They would have LED lane markings that could be changed for the conditions, built in heaters to keep ice and snow clear without the use of salt, provide power to street lights and even charge EVs as they travelled. They had conduit built in for utility lines to be easily accessible. They would have a decades long lifespan, but be able to have individual pieces swapped out with only momentary lane closures.

      This was about 15 years ago. It apparently didn’t catch on.

    5. ​@@hewhohasnoidentity4377Thunderf00t did a few videos on Solar Roadways..
      There’s a good reason they didn’t catch on

  18. two things will forever happen every single day:
    1. the sun will go down
    2. some tech bro will invent trains but worse

    1. Well trains suck for transportation anyways outside of really densely populated areas anyways and I say that as a fan of trains.

    2. ⁠@@alabastertheunicorn3204that’s fair, it’s still hilarious when the newest techbro idea of the month almost always boils down to a pod that combines the space inefficiencies of a car with the rigidity and heavy infrastructure demands of a train. It’s like they were bred in a lab to combine the worst aspects of every transportation method in the world and then pitch to gullible investors who don’t know any better

    3. Wait for Bill Gates to suspend chalk dust in the air. Then the Sun wont go down. Atleast not for us 😢

    4. @@alabastertheunicorn3204 it has to get very rural before trains aren’t good anymore. I get that there are vast swathes of remote areas all over the western US that could never economically support train service, but you’re overstating how big of a weakness this is

    5. @@alabastertheunicorn3204 …Said nobody from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, South America, Canada ever.

  19. My app went down. I’ve made the tea, it’s in the cup, but I don’t have any AI-based guidance on what to do next. The tea just sits there, taunting me. My mind is blown. As well as my life savings.

    2. I read on a forum somewhere that you can put the tea in your ibottle or ebottle and the bottle will still work. It is not perfect but it is a useful life hack.

  20. Best deadpan comedy I have experienced in years. Patrick is a renaissance man who in one video can break down the arcane lore of the stock market and in another cut down the tech bros with his sharp wit. A youtube treasure.

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